The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-25

is at rest Content with his private
condition he rose to national eminence. Free
from ambition he was intrllsted with power.
Modest and unassuming, he stood before kings.
His career has reflected lustre upon our city.
His ascent unto honor has marked a way for our
youths moved by honorable desire. In the
expressions to tell our. sorrow. The
most we can do is to adopt
the customary Symbols and wear the common
emblems which speak of grief and affliction.
Therefore you are requested to display the ordi-
nary signs of mourning, and TO cease from your
usual employments during the hours of the
funeral services. JOHN BOYD THACHER,
Mayor.
The funeral will take place Tuesday at .
o'clock in the afternoon from st. Paurs
Episcopal church.
GOV. HILLS CoNDoLENCE.
Mrs. Manning received many letters of
coincidence tonight, among them the fol-
lowing:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, !
ALBANY, N. ", Dec. "A, 1887.
Dear Mrs. Manning: Everywhere there is
the sincereSt sympathy with you in your grief.
Mr.. Manning's friends are not confined to one
city or one State, but here in the city and State
of his home, where he was best known and
esteemed, there is the deepest sorrow.
Permit me, too, TO express my own personal
sympathy with you in the great loss which you
have sustained. am, very truly, yours,
DAVID B. HILL
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's SORROW.
WASHINGTON, Dec. A.-The President is
sued the following order this afternoon to
all the departments:
The President directs that the flags on all the
public buildings in the city of Washington be
placed at half mast as a mark of respect to the
memory Of Daniel Manning, late Secretary of
the Treasury. BY direction of the President.
DANIEL S. LAMONT, Private Secretary.
TELEGRAM TO MRS. MANNING.
He also sent the following telegram to
Mrs. Manning:
Executive MANSION,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. "a, 1887.
To Mrs. Daniel Mounting, Albany ~ y:
Though in this hour of unltterable grief your
sorrow is too sacred to be shared and too deep
to be reached by earthly comfort, may / ex
press to you my sincere and tender sympathy,
saddened by my own affiiction at the loss of a
true and trusted friend and loyal associate, who
but lately stood at my side in the discharge,
with patriotic zeal, of solemn public duty.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
SECRETARY FAIRCHII4D's ORDER.
Secretary Fairchild issued this afternoon
the following order, relating to the death of
ex-Secretary Manning:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Dec. "a, 1SS..-Hop,
Daniel Manning. late Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States, died to-day at Albany, n
Y. Mr.. Manning was true patriot and firm
friend and he rendered his country great ser
vice by wise management of this Department
He was honored by all of our people, and
especially endeared to all who were
associated with him, either in his public
or private life. AS mark of respect to his
memory it is ordered that the Treasury Depart
ment building at the capital be draped in
mourning for ten days. that it be closed on the
day of the funeral, and that on that day the
national flag be displayed at half-mast on all
public buildings under the Treasury Department
throughout the United States
CHARLES S. FAIRcHuD,
Secretary of Treasury.
The President and all the members of his
Cabinet, and Col. Lamont, will attend ex-
Secretary Manning's funeral at Albany on
Tuesday. They will leave here Monday
night. The customary New Years recep-
ton at the White House will be held as
usual.
Daniel Manning was born in Albany, N.
Y, Aug. 10, 1881, and was consequently 56
wears old at the time of his death. His
parentage, which in its ancestral lines ran
into Irish, English and Dutch sources, com
bined the main stocks, which have settled
Albany and impressed upon its life and
growth its staid qualities and progressive
movement. Mr.. Manning was self-reliant
from boyhood, and it was his conviction
that he could unite the getting of an educa-
ton with the work of supporting himself.
He resisted the policy Of being
confined to the routine of schooling
for a set number of years before he attacked
industry itself, and having. acquired not
more than the rudiments of learning, he
went, at the age Of II, into the Office Of the
Albany Atlas, afterward the Argus, as boy
of-aIl-work. Here he remained for 43
wears, rising from one position TO another,
and graduating in each, until be became
President of the association for the publica-
ton of the Argus and executive proprietor.
His political views were nodded by
those of the argus. He was
member Of the state Democratic Executive
Committee from 1876 TO 1885, and its chair
man from 1881 to 1858, and much cf the
aggressive work done by that COMMITTEES
dijring the ten years of his connection with
il was identified with his influence on its
policv and organization. He succeeded to
the duties that had been exercised
by the late Samuel j. Tilden. He
was director for Albany Of the
Albany and Susquehanna Railway Com
he resigned, director in the National
Savings Bank of Albany; in 1873
he became director Of the
National Commercial Bank of Albany, In
1881 its Vice President and in 1882 its Presi-
dent. He served as Park Commissioner of
Albany, as director of the Albany railway
and the Electric Light Company, and as a
trustee OF the Fort Orange Club. On March
q 1885 his nomination by President Cleve-
land as Secretary Of the Treasury was sent
10 the Senate The ability which marked
his discharge of the important duties Of this
office are well known. Several months ago
he had stroke of patDlysis and was com
pe.I,sd W resign. He toox trip 70 Europe,
and when be returned accepted the presi-
dency of a national bank in New York city.
It was thought that his European trap mao